Father Hennepin Camping

Father Hennepin Campgrounds

Our first camping trip of the year was at Father Hennepin on Lake Mille Lacs.
Due to a layover in St. Paul, we didn't arrive at our campsite till nearly 9:00pm Friday evening. The mosquitoes were TERRIBLE. Troy bought a backyard fogger and we were much more comfortable after that - check out the first photo of Sam's back to see the damage they did to my babies :( Poor kids were itching all weekend.

Glad to get back to tent camping for the weekend and looking forward to more s'mores and hot dogs on the fire this year.

Academic Award

Megan earned her an Academic Award this year for maintaining a grade point average of 3.75 or above. I am VERY VERY proud of her and all of the hard work she has put into her Freshman year.

Contrats Megan!

Sunny San Francisco

:) For once San Francisco was SUNNY.

We had a very nice time in San Francisco visiting the pregnant Flannery & her husband Mike.
By the looks of her belly, she will be having a girl.

Highlights of our trip included a tour of Anchor Steam Brewery, Muir Woods - coastal Redwoods, Muir Beach (the ocean) Twin Peaks, The View from our hotel balcany & SHOPPING.

Troy found a fabulous "Bob Wills is Still the King" painting & I scored an antique jewelry box for Miss Megan. Not a lot of pics on this trip - Most are still on Troy's camera.















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New House Pending

Lamb Chop - Lamb is Delicious

Lamb is delicious. I would have to say that lamb is the best meat on the planet.
The first time I tasted lamb was in the 7th grade. I was at an overnight with my friend Melody Sanders. Her parents owned a self sustaining farm just outside of my hometown of Vinton. During my stay, her parents offered me a left over lamb chop from their dinner the night before. I'm pretty sure I ate it cold, straight from the fridge. It was ablsolutely delicious.

Since eating that lamb chop, I was unable to aquire more lamb until well into adult hood. Following my first lamb experience, the only lamb I had been exposed to was lamb at a buffet stiyle restaurant. It was freeze dried lamb, and nothing as flavorful as that first lamb chop.

In the last year, I have eaten more lamb than ever before in my life.
My boyfriend cooked me a beautiful lamb dinner shortly after we started dating, I was able to order lamb in fancy restaurants during our subsequential dates, lamb was recently introduced at our local grocery store, and most recently I had lamb at a fancy french restaurant in St. Paul.
Guess what?! Tonight, I am cooking LAMB!

The Next Level

Imagine that - after a year, both of our leases are up! Having said that, we decided this would be a good time to consolidate our houses and buy something :)

It's been nice having our own places, but romantically & mentally we are ready to move on. Yep, having our own places was definitely something we both needed to do but onto the next level.

We've been looking in the district 196 area due to the kid's schools & pre-approval was not a problem. Apparently my credit scores rock! It only helps that I can put 10k down on something :)
There are TONS of great homes out there for almost dirt cheap. I'm actually excited the market is still down.

We've been looking at nice 3 level splits - the 4 bedroom 2 bath, corner lot, hot tub kind! There is one open now that backs up to a lake for only 199! I'm beside myself with how good the market looks for us & the amount of home we can buy for such a low price.

On another note, Troy has been out of town for an SEO summit in San Diego. We missed our clay class this week :( but oh well - Wish I could have joined him out there but instead we booked our SF trip to celebrate Flannery & Mike's union/baby.
Nothing like spring break in wine country!

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Valentines Day

For Valentines Day dinner, Troy took me to the Meritage a french restaruant in St. Paul.

He showed up for our date in traditional style with a bouquet of flowers. - and a Valetines Day gift - This sweet diamond necklace - I'm sure it cost more than he should have spend, but he says "you deserve nice things"

If you look close, you can see the necklace in the pic.

Valet parking and 7 courses of declicious french food, a nice dry cab & port with our desert. It's nice to be spoiled. Thank-you babe!